I love finding new blogs and bloggers – this past two weeks I’ve been finding them all over the place and as a result have gone into comment leaving overload (but is there really such a thing as comment overload? Because comments are always so nice to get!!).
Any way, I was inspired by a post from Diary of a Vintage Girl about Norma Jean and how much prettier and relaxed she was in those earlier photos before she transformed into Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn has always been my favourite old Holly Wood star, there was something about her that appealed to the little girl in me. My mum had a huge hard backed book of hundreds of photos in it starting from her initial photos as Norma Jean (and her first photo shoot) right through to candid photos taken the day before her death (Which always creeped me out when I was little - knowing that the day after these photos were taken she was going to be dead). So this little inspiration is for Norma and Marilyn…
4 comments:
It's really fascinating to see the transformation, I'm always knocked out by how sexy Marilyn is and it's really like she came out of nowhere. To see her as Norma is so strange but also sad. Underneath the bombshell looks was a sweet girl with a lot of life.
What beautiful pictures. The change is amazing, and it is so sad she died so young.
Miss Karen - I think that is what attracts me to her. Marilyn did just come out of no where and i'm not sure Norma could handle being Marilyn for much longer before she died.
What a fabulous post. I love MM and to see her transform over time like this is both sad and beautiful.
My fave pic would be that early one of her in the nautical bikini on the beach when she still had her dark blonde hair.
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